[darcs-devel] a couple of quick timings

[zooko]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:58 AM, David Roundy wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:29:42AM -0700, zooko wrote:
>> time tar xjvf ciphercycles-20070205.tar.bz2
>
> Any chance you could write up a little script that generates something
> functionally equivalent to this directory for a benchmarking script?

You can get that actual tarball with:

wget http://cr.yp.to/streamciphers/timings/ciphercycles-20070205.tar.bz2

Would that suffice?

> Also, could you repeat this with the --hashed format? I doubt it's
> different, but if it is different, that would give us a hint where  
> to look.

Will do.

> Also, what's the memory use look like? Could this be an effect of  
> swapping?

No it can't, because I don't have swap on this machine.  :-)

I know that the memory use is below 500 MB, or else it would have  
crashed because I have only 500 MB on this machine.  :-)

Regards,

Zooko